‘The Scarlet Nightingale,’ a wartime tale of love, danger and sacrifice whose heroine is sent on a special mission to work alongside the French Resistance, is Alan Titchmarsh’s eleventh novel.
Titchmarsh has also written four volumes of memoirs and a miscellany celebrating England and Englishness in a varied writing career that has grown alongside his celebrated role as one of Britain’s favourite gardening experts.
Pictured: Alan Titchmarsh will be on stage at Jersey Opera House on 26 November.
He will take to the stage at Jersey Opera House on 26 November with ‘An Evening with Alan Titchmarsh,’ in what has been described as a one-off postscript to the island’s five-day Jersey Festival of Words, held in September.
His literary success will be the main focus of what will be his first appearance on a Jersey stage. It will no doubt also touch on a stellar horticultural CV that includes authorship of 50 gardening books and spells as the main presenter of the BBC’s Gardeners’ ‘World and Ground Force’ programmes. His own ‘Alan Titchmarsh Show’ ran for eight years on ITV and he has also presented ‘How to be a Gardener,’ ‘The Great British Village Show’ and ‘The Nature of Britain.’
Pippa Le Quesne, Jersey Festival of Words director said: “We are absolutely delighted to be putting on this special evening with Alan Titchmarsh. He is one of the UK’s best-loved personalities and also a very successful writer who has long been on our wish-list of authors to bring to Jersey.”
Titchmarsh said: “I first visited Jersey some thirty-odd years ago and it has always attracted me, not only because of its horticultural connections (I was judging its gardens when I first visited) but also its wartime history which chimes well with ‘The Scarlet Nightingale’. I’m really looking forward to returning.”
The Jersey Festival of Words 2018 takes place from 26 September to 30 September.
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